A new Xenusiid lobopod from the early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna of North Greenland

Palaeontology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1201-1213

  Budd, Grahame ^a   Peel, John S ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; INVERTEBRATE; PALEONTOLOGY;

HADRANAX AUGUSTUS; LOBOPODIA; XENUSIIDAE;

EID: 0032455338     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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